24. Sad in a way

I mean, good for Obama and all. And it's nice to know that the nuts haven't completely taken over the asylum. But in the end it means that our political discourse has become, "All the reasonable people versus the nut jobs".

Makes it hard to have real conversations about moving the country to the left. It really means that it is an inter-party struggle over what to do. There is no "loyal minority" with which to shape policy and politics. And in the end, it gives great power to the moderate right.

If we want to move this country to the left, those people have to "go back to" the GOP and take it back from the whack jobs. We need the DLC and the third way, and all of the NAFTA DINO's to go back to their rightful place in the GOP so we can have a real competition of ideas, not just a tug of war between those who want to jump off the cliff, and those that want to stay alive.